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Trilium Notes: note taking application for large personal knowledge bases

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I'm on this train too (personal data store collection over time) but I have to write it myself. The thing I've been thinking about is the unified storage. I have e2e encryption exp (slows search), generally sql, guess can't beat that just sql. I also want to infer content on random old hard drives since I have a couple that are years old (different mindset back then). Working on a lazy s3 upload by directory structure.

Also it's funny "make it yourself" like arguably it's a waste of time. You could make your own Trello (my concern again was privacy). But if it's not your own cloud... Yeah idk probably dumb thoughts.

I also want local "physical on person" data store (again dumb) like everyone has a phone/usually connected to a network/local could be sqlite. idk it's a weird interest

I have various sources of data. Android widget, chrome extension, desktop app, web app. Most are using same local pi hosted data store at least. 1 remote e2e web note taking app. I wrote all of these (non Android) so yeah same old CRUD.

I also wonder is there any point to looking backwards. I have a one note (privacy!) from like 10 years ago... would be curious to infer/summarize what I thought of back then. Would there be anything useful. I just know that back then I was more ambitious but also very stupid/blissfully unaware of consequences.

It seems that with this app, I could take my markdown notes and convert them all into a non-portable format. Not sure why I would do that, unless I really enjoy locking myself into a specific note taking app.

The feature set says it supports MD import and export.

Yes, but it doesn't store notes in markdown format, so I can't open my notes in other markdown apps without migrating.

Been using Trilium to store all my notes for the past few years. Been exceptional. Easily scales to a tremendous number of notes and allows fast searching and creation of notes.

The built-in plugin system allows me to automate tasks that would be impossible in other note taking applications. I'd likely only recommend Trilium for super-users intending to extend it with their own functions. For simple note taking, other apps are more polished. None are more powerful though, I feel!

Personally this would have to offer something very special to get be to move from zim-wiki or even cherrytree.

Does this not have supports for tags on notes or am I overlooking it?

Looks like they have labels, but I desire tags (topic.subtopic.subtopic, multiple per note, with tag search on entering and searching).

it supports tags (multiple per note) and you can search with #tag

I find the synch part sorely missing e2e encryprtion. That for me is Joplins Killer feature

Anyone has any recommendations for self-hosted mind mapping software?

I use freemind, although it's really dated at this point (last release: 2016)

Per the wikipedia page for Freemind, it has been replaced by Freeplane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeplane

I don't do the mind map thing, but I do make heavy use of Obsidian as my note taking solution and it has a graph view to show the connections between nodes.

https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Graph+view

There are also 3rd party plugins that further build on it's system like https://github.com/lynchjames/obsidian-mind-map

Obsidian itself runs locally on top of markdown files (with it's own flavor).

LogSeq, maybe. Mind mapping is not its thing, but it can be bent to do it

I've used Freeplane for mind maps. It is heavyweight but does its job very well. Packed with useful features.

But then I found how mind maps get worse as the content grows, both in depth and breadth. A well thought out infographic is much more effective at presenting (i use draw.io). And a pen and paper is much faster and portable at capturing content at conversation, thought or video speeds.

Being constrained by physical real estate on a paper is crucial in my opinion for notes.

Obnoxiously, the vast majority of mind mapping SW is subware crap, which is a totally inappropriate model for document creation SW.

I'm on Mac and ended up getting Writemapper as the pricing was reasonable and it had export to word functionality. Unfortunately, it is very mouse heavy.

https://hub.docker.com/r/jonberenguer/mindmaps

It's a bit old, but I still use it. Otherwise xmind and freemind are my desktop goto mind mapping softwares

org-roam

https://www.toketaware.com/

Available on Windows, iOS, and Mac. Is paid application, but one-time payment per platform.

I like it a lot because the developer takes a lot of care in the useability of the application, and its made by a single person, so there is a lot of consistency and continuity between versions. It works amazingly with iCloud. Windows version is pretty good too. If you are using the Windows version multiple devices, just make sure you save and exit the map before opening it on another device.

I use SimpleMind: https://simplemind.eu/

It runs fully offline with Google Drive/Dropbox/Nextcloud support. Desktop and native mobile apps are available. No subscription, one-time fee for both desktop and mobile apps.

I'm tempted to move on to "infinite canvas" freeform notetaking like Muse, but I don't want to pay a subscription fee. I wish SimpleMind had some of Muse or Kinopio's features, like audio/gif/video support, but overall those features aren't worth adding yet another subscription product to my budget.

So much reminds me of Obsidian.

This looks nice. Personally, I use vimwiki as a personal desktop wiki. But it would be nice to have a better mobile client.

Sorry, we need this word "trilium" for 3He, helium-3, which is likely to become important for powering, at least, outer solar system probes.

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